Hail Jah

PODcast: Hail Jah
Now for something totally different. This is a co-write with him writing lyrics and performing vocals, a couple of women on background vocals, and
me doing the music, all instruments, producing and engineering. This piece seeks to invent a new musical flavor, combining carribean, island,
calypso, latin, and modern elements into a danceable tune with a powerful poilitical and spiritual message.

Sometimes I have to wonder (truth)
What kind of life I’m under (that’s the truth)
Where people hate each other (truth)
They don’t believe that they’re brothers (that’s the truth)
We’ve got to come together (Hail Jah, Hail Jah, Hail Jah Jah Jah)
So we can help one another (Hail Jah, Hail Jah)

Blood’s flowing in the sand
There’s genocide in Sudan land
Just like in Rwanda
It’s nothing but murder
And in everybody’s country
Man is going crazy
In everybody’s country
Man has lost his sanity

They’re killing for a penny
They say they don’t have any
They’re killing off each other’s faith
They’re killing you for pure hate
In everybody’s nation
People dying of starvation
In everybody’s country
It’s war and poverty

I lift my hands and pray
That Jah will come and show us the way
Jah Jah he can make things right
So we can make it through the night
So we can make it through the night
So we can make it through the night

I had my speakers turned up from listening to something else and so this was blasted out at me. Fortunately, it's a nice little AIWA stereo set and
it handled it just fine. It took about .2 seconds for this song to get to my heart and by that time, I decided that the volume was just perfect. I
danced in my chair the whole song! I_LOVE_THIS! The mail vocals make me tingly!

I was reminded of the reggae concerts of my past when I spent the whole night on my feet. Best dancin' music there is.

Great lyrics, great music! Oh, and it's great to dance to! I give it a 10!

wow, kk, thanks rachel07, and BH! So glad you like it! It's done with one of my co-writing friends, and that is recent stuff. We'll be finishing it
off this weekend, he's gonna recut the lead vocals...

I like em the way they are, but he insists he can do it better, so....It is going to be
released in the carribean and europe first.

I'm serious though I got 4 cd's worth of this chinese lady who plays an instrument called a zheng. It's actually
pretty music, and she is considered a zheng master. But nah, please don't make me...

I think that sounds fun....

I really like culturally blended music... particularly competing scales (western and eastern) and rhythms and indigenous vocals... Throw in any of the
wailings of a Celtic or middle eastern vocalist and I'm hooked. I also love primitive music... gives me the chills.

And da w3rd is: we recut the lead vocals, tightened up a few things, got a new mix and...I might upload it if you folks would like to see how a tune
can evolve. Is the new version better? I'm thinkin so...He likes it better too.

I dunno. on second thought maybe we'll save the new version for the commercial release.

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